Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 49

I hope Brer Fox ain't dead, but I speck he is,' sezee. '

Who acts: I, Fox · What happens: hope, speck, be · To what, where: sezee

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Fox), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 hope	nsubj
2	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Fox	compound
4	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 ai	nsubj
5	ai	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hope	ccomp
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 dead	advmod
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ai	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 speck	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 speck	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 speck	nsubj
11	speck	speck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hope	conj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sezee	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 sezee	cop
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sezee	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 sezee	punct
16	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 speck	ccomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hope	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 hope	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hope	present	I		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	speck	present	I		tree rules
3	is a	present	Fox	sezee	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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